Paul Bruger

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Paul Bruger (born November 27, 1872 in Kamenz , † November 11, 1960 in Bautzen ) was a German teacher , local politician and local researcher .

Life

Paul Bruger was the oldest child of five siblings and grew up with foster parents after the early death of his father. First he attended the village school in Spittel near Kamenz, then after moving to Dresden the local Catholic community school. From 1886 he attended the Catholic teacher training college in Bautzen and then from 1892 worked as a primary school teacher in Reichenau near Zittau, Radeberg and Leipzig . At the University of Leipzig he took up a working course and took lectures in geography, history, German, pedagogy and philosophy.

In 1901 he returned as a teacher at the Catholic teachers' college in Bautzen, where he became a senior teacher in 1908 and a teacher in 1924.

Bruger was from 1918 in Bautzen city councilor and in 1920 the City Council as Head of the Department of Education, museum and theater matters. He headed the department for almost 15 years until the National Socialists deposed him.

After 1945 he taught at the Bautzen Business School, was again a city councilor and from 1945 to 1948 headed the district and local association of the CDU . Towards the end of the 1940s, he had to resign from all offices for health reasons.

Paul Bruger was a co-founder of the Society for Prehistory and History of Upper Lusatia in Bautzen , participated in prehistoric excavations and wrote numerous articles on Lusatian art history, which appeared in the Bautzener Geschichtshefte and in the Bautzener Tageblatt , among others .

His grave is in the Nikolaifriedhof in Bautzen.

Fonts (selection)

  • Michael Sporer, Mattheus Crocinus , Sigismund Heinrich Kauderbach and other Bautzen painters up to the end of the 17th century . In: Bautzener Geschichtshefte 1, 1915, pp. 28–63.
  • Goldsmiths and goldsmiths in old Bautzen . Bautzen, [1938] (reprint from Bautzen history books 16).
  • Pictures of the city fire in 1634 . In: 1000 years of Bautzen. Fire commemorations 1634–1934 . Bautzen 1934, pp. 57-60.
  • Jacob Vogel's comedy "Bautzensturm 1620" . In: Bautzener Geschichtshefte 3, 1920, pp. 42–57.
  • The cemetery at the artillery barracks in Bautzen. In: Annual issue of the Society for Anthropology and Prehistory of Upper Lusatia . III. Volume, Issue 1, 1920, pp. 35-48.
  • Antiquities in the Bautzen Liebfrauenkirche . In: Bautzener Geschichtshefte 15, 1937,
  • Goldsmiths and goldsmiths in old Bautzen . In: Bautzener Geschichtshefte 16, 1938, pp. 34–75.

literature

  • Johannes Strauch: Paul Bruger a pioneer of Lusatian historical research . In: Bautzener Kulturschau, 6th year, No. 11, 1956, pp. 8-10.
  • Paul Bruger †. Five decades in the service of Lusatian historical research . In: Bautzener Kulturschau 10th year, No. 12, 1960, p. 13.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Broszat, Hermann Weber, Gerhard Braas: SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945-1949 . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 537; 879.
personal data
SURNAME Bruger, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, local politician and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamenz
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1960
Place of death Bautzen